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Elva LAI lives and works in Hong Kong.
LAI is an installation artist. Her work examines the instabilities inherent in the modality of photography and searches for sensitivities of photographic representation. She studied in Germany, the States and Hong Kong respectively and was awarded the Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize in 2013 and Freeman Creative Prize in 2015. She is the winner of The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016 and had her solo show in the Landskrona Foto Festival 2017 in Sweden. Education
2015-2017
Meisterschülerin, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig Germany Klasse für Installation und Raum bei Prof. Joachim Blank, Class of Installation and Space 2013-2015 Master of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2012 Exchange programme, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA 2009-2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts of The Chinese University of Hong Kong Conference programme
2016
Seminar und Symposium “Über die Grenze”, SS Institut für Theorie, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig Capital & Communication: Visualising Chinese Borders in the 21st Century by the Manchester Metropolitan University and the Institute of Creative Industries Design at National Cheng Kung University Artist-in-Residency Stay2017 Artist Residency in ODRADEK, Brussels,Belgium
2016 The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency, Sweden http://www.landskronafoto.org/en/residency/ 2014 La Galere, Cotignac, France. Supported by Justice Center Hong Kong and Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize Awards
2016
The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016 2015 Freeman Creative Prize 2013 Talent Development Scholarship 2013/14, the HKSAR Government Fund Reaching Out Award 2013/14, the HKSAR Government Fund Friends of the Arts of Museum Research Grant Hong Kong Human Right Art Prize (Justice Center Hong Kong) Culture Corner Art Academy Fine Arts Award Cheung’s Fine Arts Award Y.S. Hui Fine Arts Award Grotto Fine Art Award 2011 Gaylord Chan Painting Award 
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Solo Exhibition
2017
FREEDOM SWIMMERS, Artist Residency in ODRADEK, Brussels, Belgium FREEDOM SWIMMERS, MZIN, Leipzig,Germany FREEDOM SWIMMERS, Landskrona Foto Festival ,Landskrona Sweden 2015 “How about the other 80% you forgot?” Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong “Sorry, it’s fragile”, Artify Gallery, Hong Kong 2014 One Hundred Thousand Whys, Ching Ming Building, New Asia College, CUHK, Hong Kong 2013 Delusional Disorder, New Asia College, CUHK, Hong Kong Selected group Exhibition2017
Ways of Surviving through Accelerated Mindfulness, 1a Space, Hong Kong Composing Stories with Fragments of Time, Works by Kurt Chan, Annie Wan, Francis Yu, Luke Ching, Angela Su, Lau Chi Chung, Carmen Ng, and Elva Lai, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong Operation Grenze,Ausstellungsprojekts in der Gedenkstätte Deutsche Teilung Marienborn, Germany 2016 Ausstellung der Klasse für Installation und Raum, Galerie bipolar, Leipzig Germany Frühlingsrundgang Spinnerei, Open studio:studio in the hall 18 , Spinnerei, Leipzig C.A.R.contemporary art ruhr Die Mediakunst Messe (Media Art Fair)Welterbe Zollverein World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein XII, SANAA building, Essen 2015 All Day Breakfast, Joint exhibition of Elva Lai and Szelit Cheung, ACO, Hong Kong Uncertainties. Asian Digital Art Exhibition (First Edition), LA CASA CHINA , Spain 2014 From 3G to 4G, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong Our Beautiful Days, New Asia College Ch’ien Mu Library, Chinese University of Hong Kong A given moment in somewhere, some people and something, An Exhibition by TSAI Yi-Ting & Elva LAI, a.m. space, Hong Kong Out of light, The A. lift Gallery, Hong Kong Our 1989-99 Project, Fine Arts Department of CUHK & Taipei National University of the Arts, 8 2/1 gallery, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan 2013 Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize 2013, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong Trava(i)l, The A. lift Gallery, Hong Kong Documentation as Drawing, a.m. space, Hong Kong disturbances, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong Hong Kong Art Prize 2013 Exhibition, Wheelock Gallery, Hong Kong <356,955km> , Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong | ||